A tribute to Gil Evans (Born 1912 in
Toronto; died 1988 in Cuernavaca,
Mexico). The first four pieces are from his first collaboration with Miles
Davis – the 1957 big band album Miles
Ahead. Davis’s solos on trumpet were aptly transcribed for Rieu’s
saxophones.

Summertime was originally recorded on Davis’s
1959 album Porgy and Bess. This was surely the highlight of the first part. The
central core consisted of rousing solos by Bill Mahar, Samuel Blais and Yannick
Rieu with solid backing from Rémi-Jean and Kevin.

Entracte

Part
2 / 2ème partie:

The Mystic Mind Suite Jean-Nicolas Trottier

CONCEPT: The
Mystic Mind Suite's orchestral arrangement evolves as a sound
pattern (an idea, a word, an image) travels through billions of synapses in ourwinding thoughts. The concept behind
this piece is very similar to Electronic Meditation, Tangerine Dream’s first
album. Both explore sound patterns as they journey through the synapses of a
brain. TD explores through the use of electronics whereas Trottier does so
through the big band and the sonic sounds of Sylvain Provost’s electric guitar,
Zaldivar’s piano and Rieu’s saxophones. TD explores the ‘emotional’ effects of
a brain that is on fire; Trottier explores the effects on one’s memory. Mystic
Mind is a very complex piece that spans a wide range of sounds and textures. The piece was superblyl arranged and well played.

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